Addressing low homeownership rates requires a multi-faceted approach that addresses the various barriers to homeownership such as affordability, access to credit, immigration status and linguistic isolation.

If you are a homeowner and live in the County of LA – including all the cities within the County – the tax would apply to you.

Property taxes would go up 1.5 cents for every square foot of your house (or condo). Here’s what it mean for various home sizes.

Note that this tax would replace funding from earlier measures that have expired or are about to expire. They were passed about twenty years ago. One expired in 2015. The other will expire in 2019. So the net impact of the tax is lowered.

By harvesting water with a fog-catching system, a women-led NGO is transforming the water-scarce villages tucked into the mountains overlooking the scorching Sahara and freeing up young women to get an education.